Glimpses of the Past: Revelstoke Dam Lets Loose with Record Flood Gate Water
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Glimpses of the past: Revelstoke Dam lets loose with record flood gate water
130 years ago: Kootenay Mail, August 15, 1896 Dr. A.T. Watt, Secretary for the Provincial Board of Health, had toured towns in the Interior and found that many of the jails were overcrowded. Many of the jails had no more than nine cells and would occasionally have up to four men in one cell. Watt stated that this was unsanitary and illegal. 120 years ago: Revelstoke Mail-Herald, August 15, 1906 Authorities were trying to figure out how to distri…
Due to heavy rains in the catchment area, the Bisalpur Dam has received this season's highest inflow of 18 cm of water in 24 hours. By Friday morning, the dam's water level reached 313.75 RL meters. Water inflow into the dam is still continuing. The Triveni River is flowing at a height of 3.90 meters. The dam's total filling capacity is 315.50 meters, or 38 TMC, while so far 26.682 TMC of water has come in. In this situation, the dam is almost t…
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